OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Methods & Research is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	268
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	155
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	80
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies	60
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	59
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning	44
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables	42
Cheap Learning: Maximizing Performance of Language Models for Social Data Science Using Minimal Data	32
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)	31
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys	20
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies	19
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research	18
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes	17
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model	16
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites	15
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models	15
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations	15
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention	14
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020	13
Causal Inference for Latent Markov Models Using the Parametric G-Formula	13
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	13
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	12
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery	12
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric	11
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate	11

Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	11
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study	11
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey	11
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily	11
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages	10
Challenges in Multilevel Modelling: Cross-Group Measurement Noninvariance and Measurement Errors. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study	10
Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research	10
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry	9
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition	9
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status	9
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision	9
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork^,	8
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on the Transition to Adulthood	8
Analyzing factorial survey data with structural equation models	8
Simulating Subjects: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence Stand-Ins for Social Agents and Interactions	7
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery	7
A Joint Model for Longitudinal and Time-to-event Data in Social and Life Course Research: Employment Status and Time to Retirement	7
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference	7
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?	7
Geographic Variation in Multigenerational Mobility	7
Generalized Intergenerational Mobility Regressions	6
Improving Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measures on Gender and Age Stereotypes by Means of Piloting Methods	6
A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis	6
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?	6
Using Inverse Probability Weighting to Address Post-Outcome Collider Bias	6
Monitoring Attitudes Over Time: Real Change or the Result of Repeated Interviewing?	6
Correcting the Measurement Errors of AI-Assisted Labeling in Image Analysis Using Design-Based Supervised Learning	5
A Method for Estimating Individual Socioeconomic Status of Twitter Users	5
Do Quantitative and Qualitative Research Reflect two Distinct Cultures? An Empirical Analysis of 180 Articles Suggests “no”	5
Social Encounters and the Worlds Beyond: Putting Situationalism to Work for Qualitative Interviews	5
Simulation-Based Sensitivity Analysis in Optimal Treatment Regimes and Causal Decomposition With Individualized Interventions	5
An Optimal Stratification Method for Addressing Nonresponse Bias in Bayesian Adaptive Survey Design	5
Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis With Bounding and Interactions	5
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries	5
Estimation and sensitivity analysis for causal decomposition in health disparity research	5
Locating Cultural Holes Brokers in Diffusion Dynamics Across Bright Symbolic Boundaries	5
Two-sample Age-period-cohort Models	5
The Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning	5
Social Rigidity Across and Within Generations: A Predictive Approach	4
Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference	4
A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Approach for Modeling Memory Decay in Dynamic Social Networks	4
The Unrealized Potential of Audits: Applicant-Side Inequalities in Effort, Opportunities, and Certainty	4
Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis	4
Against the Mainstream: On the Limitations of Non-Invariance Diagnostics: Response to Fischer et al. and Meuleman et al.	4
Deceptively Approachable: Translating Standards in Qualitative Research	4
Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing	4
Visual Design and Cognition in List-Style Open-Ended Questions in Web Probing	4
Absolute and Relative Mobility: Two Frameworks for Connecting Intergenerational Mobility in Absolute and Relative Terms	4
Deep Learning With DAGs	4
The Augmented Social Scientist: Using Sequential Transfer Learning to Annotate Millions of Texts with Human-Level Accuracy	3

The Design and Optimality of Survey Counts: A Unified Framework Via the Fisher Information Maximizer	3
An Exploration of the Presence of Positive-Results Bias in Qualitative Comparative Analysis	3
Untapped Potential: Designed Digital Trace Data in Online Survey Experiments	3
Addressing Missingness in Serialized Bureaucratic Data: The Case of Chinese Courts	3
Sequential On-Device Multitasking within Online Surveys: A Data Quality and Response Behavior Perspective	3
Estimating Causal Effects of Multi-Valued Treatments Accounting for Network Interference: Immigration Policies and Crime Rates	3